Magnetic soft x-ray microscopy at 15 nm resolution probing nanoscale local magnetic hysteresis (invited)

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Recent progress in x-ray optics has pushed the lateral resolution of soft x-ray magnetic microscopy to below 15 nm. We have measured local magnetic hysteresis on a nanometer scale at the full-field x-ray microscope XM-1 at the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley, approaching fundamental length scales such as exchange lengths, Barkhausen lengths, and grain diameters. We have studied the evolution of magnetic domain patterns in a nanogranular CoCrPt film with a pronounced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and revealed nanoscopic details associated with the granular film structure. From a quantitative analysis of the field-dependent magnetic domain patterns, we are able to generate local magnetic hysteresis map on a nanometer scale. Our findings indicate a significant variation of local coercive fields corresponding to the nanoscopic behavior of magnetic domains. (C) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
Issue Date
2006-04
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

SPATIAL-RESOLUTION; SCALE; DYNAMICS; REVERSAL; FILMS

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, v.99, pp.269 - 275

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0021-8979
DOI
10.1063/1.2167060
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/13939
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RIMS Journal Papers
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